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Stories of care a labour of law illustrates that a remedy for the crisis in social care is not possible without reform of labour law such reform must recognise the forms of work in which working class women engage as worthy of legal protection. Stories of care a labour of law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and labour that shape paid care workbased on the experiences of homecare workers this highly topical text unpicks doctrinal assumptions about class and gender to interrogate contemporary labour law. In stories of care a labour of law gender and class at work lydia hayes argues that the uks crisis of social care is a product of the institutionalised humiliation of paid care workers a process made possible by the gendered inadequacy of law. In stories of care a labour of law hayes seeks to understand the gendered inadequacy of labour law by locating her analysis within the context of the uks crisis of social care. Stories of care a labour of law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and labour that shape paid care work based on the experiences of homecare workers this highly topical text unpicks doctrinal assumptions about class and gender to interrogate contemporary labour law